Some Reasons Humbly Offered, to the Considerations of Both Houses of Parliament, why the Quakers Affirmation should not pass instead of an Oath caption title

by Quakers

$1,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

One of Two Known Copies A rare and expansive appeal to Parliament against the 1715 bill to renew the Quakers' right to the solemn affirmation in place of the legal oath. In 1696, after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths, Quakers were granted the right by an act of Parliament to take a solemn affirmation in legal situations in place of an actual oath. In 1715, a bill was under consideration in

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